For Ehud Olmert now, it's trick or treat

If indeed Ehud Olmert is an apostle of peace and not just another opportunist political crook plotting a comeback, the union of Likud with Lieberman provides the perfect platform for him to declare his return to politics.

If Ehud Olmert doesn't declare now, after the Netanyahu-Lieberman alliance, then he is just the same fibbing opportunist as all the others and his protestations about peace and Israel's survival are about as meaningful as Bibi's Bar-Ilan speech.

(I presume that any idiots– like me – who thought there might be a smidgen of sincerity in the Bar-Ilan speech are now finally weaned of that...

Complaints about Olmert's corruption make me wonder how Yaakov Neeman,
the justice (?) minister, has snookered attorney general Weinstein into
such a long delay in the filing of charges against Bibi's new partner in
crime. In Olmert's case, I am also reminded of what Lincoln said when
told that Ulysses Grant had a drinking problem. "Find out what
kind of whisky he drinks," Abe reportedly said, "and send a
case of it to my other generals."

"If indeed Ehud Olmert is an apostle of peace and not just another
opportunist political crook plotting a comeback." Well, although
lucky for him, he hasn't been sent to Jail YET, I think the court found
him to be a crook. I think it is time we got rid of the old crooks, and
made room for some younger ones. At least we will have new faces to look
at on TV.

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